A haunting sound captured by researchers could help monitor changes to Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf from afar.

For this reason, they have buried 34 monitors seismic under the layer of snow from the sea ice of Ross so they can capture that awesome noise.

Studying the vibrations - and how they change based on changes to the ice shelf - could give researchers a sense of the effect of climate change on the region, according to University of Chicago glaciologist Douglas MacAyeal, who penned a commentator on the effect in Geophysical Research Letters.

When scientists analyzed acoustic data collected between 2014 and 2017, they realized the snow dunes atop the Ross Ice Shelf are constantly vibrating.

When the researchers started analyzing seismic data on the Ross Ice Shelf, they noticed something odd: Its fur coat was nearly constantly vibrating.

"We discovered that the shelf almost continuously sings at frequencies of five or more cycles per second", the authors explain, "excited by local and regional winds blowing across its snow dune‐like topography".

Ice shelves are covered in a thin blanket of snow, typically several meters deep, that insulates the ice below from warming and melting like a fur coat.

Mr Chaput said weather conditions can change the frequency of the vibrations, thereby changing the tune.

The scientists liken it to "singing", but to our ears the creepy dirge of Antarctic ice shelf vibrations sounds more like the sinister score of a horror movie.

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